HIGHER-DERIVATIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL MASSIVE FERMION THEORIES

DOI10.1142/S0217751X00000926zbMATH Open1032.83035arXivhep-th/9804148MaRDI QIDQ4433646FDOQ4433646

Authors: L. V. Belvedere, R. L. P. G. Amaral, Claudio G. Carvalhaes, Nivaldo A. Lemos 

Publication date: 3 December 2003

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the canonical quantization of a generalized two-dimensional massive fermion theory containing higher odd-order derivatives. The requirements of Lorentz invariance, hermiticity of the Hamiltonian and absence of tachyon excitations suffice to fix the mass term, which contains a derivative coupling. We show that the basic quantum excitations of a higher-derivative theory of order 2N+1 consist of a physical usual massive fermion, quantized with positive metric, plus 2N unphysical massless fermions, quantized with opposite metrics. The positive metric Hilbert subspace, which is isomorphic to the space of states of a massive free fermion theory, is selected by a subsidiary-like condition. Employing the standard bosonization scheme, the equivalent boson theory is derived. The results obtained are used as a guideline to discuss the solution of a theory including a current-current interaction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804148

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltoniantachyoneffective actioncanonical quantizationLorentz invariancequantum field theoriessuperstring theoriesEinstein-Hilbert LagrangianHilbert subspacefermion theoryhigher-derivative Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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• The fermion-boson mapping in three-dimensional quantum field theory

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